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. Vulnus Achilleo quae quondam fecerat hosti : (I, 47) Vulneris auxilium Pelias hasta tulit. (I, 48)

4. Sed quaecumque viris, vobis quoque dicta puellae (I, 49) Credite :

Attamen exemplo multa docere potest. (T, 52)

Vixisset Phyllis, si me foret usa magistro : (I, 55)

Nec moriens Dido (200)

. Da mihi Pasiphaen; jam tauri ponet amorem : (1, 63)

Da Phaedram ; Phaedrae turpis abibit amor. (I, 64)

Cooling Carde

De Remedio Amoris

LYLY ET OVIDE 585

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Seeing therefore the very blossome of loue is sower, the budde cannot be sweete. In time preuent danger ?, least vntimelye thou runne into a thousande perrills. Searche the wounde while it is greene, to late commeth the salue when the sore festereth 3, and the medicine bringeth dubble care, when the maladye is past cure.

Beware of delayes 4. What lesse then the grayne of Mustardeseede, in time almost what thing is greater then the stalke thereoft? The slender twigge groweth to a stately tree, and that which with the hand might easely haue bene pulled uppÿ, will hardly with the axe be hewen downe. The least sparke, if it bee not quenched will burst into a flame, the least Moth in time eateth the thickest clothe, and I haue reade that in a shorte space, there was a Towne in Spayne vndermined with Connyes, in Thessalia, with Mowles, with Frogges in Fraunce, in Africa with Flyes. If these silly Wormes in tracte of time ouerthrowe so statelye Townes, how much more will loue, which creepeth secretly into the minde 6 (as the rust doth into the yron and is not perceiued), consume the body, yea and confound the soule. Defer not from houre to day, from day to month, from month to yeare, and alwayes remayne in misery.

1. J’omets 45 lignes qui n’ont rien de correspondant dans Ovide, à moins que dans le vers : « Quale sit id, quod amas, celeri cireumspice mente » (1, 89), on ne puisse voir l'original de : « Enter with thy selfe into this meditation » (p. 248, I. 19).

Principus obsta : (I, 91)

sero medicina paratur : (I, 91)

Cum mala per longas convaluere moras. (I, 92)